Background
Felix, David was born on December 26, 1921 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Son of Benjamin and Mollie (Leibowitz) Felix.
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This is a radical reinterpretation of Marx’s life and works. Unquestionably one of the greatest thinkers in world history, Marx persistently made his ideas serve his political instincts, modifying his thoughts according to the standard of political effectivenessthe needs of power. Marx as Politician is a political life beginning with Marx’s early years when he was sensitized to politics by the unique situation of the Rhineland, occupied for two decades by the revolutionary and Napoleonic French and then handed over to the Prussian bureaucracy. Defining his major effects on our late 20-century world, the biography carries Marx through to the burnt-out but still masterful leader. Felix traces the pattern and demonstrates the importance of such political actions by Marx as his editorship of leading radical newspapers in Germany during two important periods; his leadership of the Communist League and the First International; his role as a provincial politician as well as an editor in the German Revolution of 1848; his brilliant use of the Paris Commune to gain credit for the International and his revolutionary doctrines; his shaping of the Communist Manifesto and Capital to provide inspiration, strategy, and structure for world communist revolution; his manipulation of the German socialist parties; and his cautious but quickening contacts with Russian populist revolutionaries. In all of this, Felix shows Marx the politician seeking and nurturing power against the grain of his time. While his political greatness became apparent only following his death, his stature was assured by the genius that kept his communist revolution inviolateneither corrupted by compromise nor annihilated by premature action. By focusing on Marx’s actions as related to his ideas, Felix renders untenable the conventional view of Marx as a failed and distracted leader. He shows, on the contrary, that Marx belongs among such leaders as Pericles and Caesar, Disraeli and Bismarck, Lenin and Roosevelt.
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(Financial reparation was the most difficult and dangerous...)
Financial reparation was the most difficult and dangerous of the conditions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty. The amount of reparations - three times the country's annual income - was beyond Germany's capacity to pay. Nor was Germany permitted to build up trade surpluses that might at least have made partial reparation possible. The United States, by insisting on the payment of Allied war debts, forced the Allies in turn to insist on reparations. Postwar polemics concentrated on German aggression and war crimes, but the real issue was the damage done to the world's economic mechanism. In the end all nations suffered, including the United States. Walther Rathenau, German Reconstruction Minister in 1921 and Foreign Minister in 1922 - and a Jew - bore the main weight of these problems. He was the first of his country's leaders to articulate the policy of fulfillment, the German effort to cooperate with the Allies. Stresemann went on to carry it out during most of the interwar period, and Brüning brought it to its logical and disastrous conclusion. Fulfillment helped the Weimar Republic to survive, but it also prepared the way for Hitler...
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Felix, David was born on December 26, 1921 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Son of Benjamin and Mollie (Leibowitz) Felix.
Bachelor, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1943; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1970; Certified, Law Faculty Paris, 1955.
Reporter Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 1947-1950. Information officer United States Economic Mission to Austria, Vienna, 1950-1954. Correspondent International News Service, Paris, 1955-1956.
Managing editor Challenge, Mag'e Economic Affairs, New York City, 1957-1959. Finance writer Baron Public Relations, 1960-1964. Instructor to professor history City University of New York, since 1965.
Cons.-panelist National Endowment of the Humanities, Washington, 1975-1980. Consultant New York City Board Education, 1980-1981, Lehrman Institute, New York City, 1982-1985.
(Financial reparation was the most difficult and dangerous...)
( This is a radical reinterpretation of Marx’s life and w...)
With United States Army, 1943-1945. Member American History Association, American Economics Association.
Married Georgette Byk, August 12, 1966.